Planning our next trip to
Asia in November 2014
I first detailed our award travel flight from LAX (Los Angeles)
to HND (Tokyo, Japan) in a previous
post. Our total cost for 2
economy one-way tickets from Los Angeles to Tokyo was only 50,000 American
Airlines miles and $10!
The next part of our travel involves flying from NRT (Tokyo,
Japan) to TPE (Taipei, Taiwan) where we will stay for 5 days.
We will then continue onwards to OKA (Okinawa, Japan) and will
stay there for 4 to 5 days before returning home.
Using our Chase Ultimate
Rewards points
I found that using our United Airlines Mileage Plus miles
would be the cheapest award redemption.
Once I found out the cost (in miles and fees) of the flights we wanted
to take on United.com, I went to ultimaterewards.com to transfer some
of our Chase Ultimate Rewards points towards my United Airlines Mileage Plus account.
Chase Ultimate Rewards points convert 1:1 directly to United
Airlines (and several other airlines including British Airways, Korean Air,
Singapore Airlines, Southwest, United, and Virgin Atlantic). The point transfer occurs almost
instantly; you just need to logout and then re-login to your United Airlines
account.
These two flights came out to be 30,000 United Airlines miles and
$35.70 per person for a total of 60,000 United Airlines miles and $71.40. I used Kayak.com
to find the cheapest possible flight online, which would have cost us $651
total if paying with cash. There
is still so much more planning that we need to do for our upcoming trip.
I will post
more details of our Asia trip as I redeem more points towards free travel!
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